Re: PROV-ISSUE-1: a proposal to vote on

  +1 for "invariant view/perspective on a thing".
I believe its use, even temporary one, will allow us make progress.

Regards, khalid

On 06/06/2011 09:22, Luc Moreau wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> You will recall we failed to reach consensus on the following proposal 
> at the last teleconference:
>  "in a first instance, to define the necessary concepts that allow us 
> to express the provenance
> of a thing that does not change".  Kai, Jim and Satya then expressed 
> concerns, which can be
> summarized as, this proposal provides no route to handle mutable things.
>
> After a long email discussion with them over the WE, we have converged 
> towards a better
> proposal:
>
> /In a first instance, to define the necessary concepts that allow us 
> to express the provenance of
> an invariant view or perspective on a thing./
>
> What is important to note is that it is the view/perspective that does 
> not change, the thing
> itself can be mutable.
>
> To allow us to progress, can you express by +1/-1/0 your support for 
> this proposal?
>
> Best regards,
> Luc
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